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Higher Bounty for Fugitive

The price on a fugitive lawman's head rose $5,000 yesterday, The Associated Press reported. The United States Marshals Service offered the sum as a reward for the capture of Nicholas L. Bissell Jr., the former Somerset County Prosecutor who fled from house arrest last week, two days before he was to be sentenced on fraud, perjury and abuse of power charges. The new bounty was added to a $1,500 reward offered by police departments in Franklin Township and East Brunswick.